Year: 2005

  • Lunch at the schizophrenic diner

    I’ll have what I’m having.

  • Modesty

    Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.Alphonso the Wise

  • Imagination

    So you see, imagination needs moodling—long, inefficient, happy idling; dawdling; and puttering.Brenda Ueland

  • How greeting cards are made

    Cute animation plugging Hallmark’s Shoebox brand, and explaining how greeting cards are madeA bunch of links about bubble wrapPlay fetch with a three-legged seal-dog.For Lord of the Rings fans: One does not simply walk into Mortor.Finally, Barry Schwartz (Gel 2005 speaker) and his student Dan Keys have just begun a study that is intended to…

  • Growth

    The important thing is not to stop questioning.  Curiosity has its own reason for existing.Albert Einstein

  • Why We Love Children

    A kindergarten pupil told his teacher he’d found a cat, but it was dead.“How do you know that the cat was dead?” she asked her pupil.“Because I pissed in its ear and it didn’t move,” answered the child innocently.You did what?!?” the teacher exclaimed in surprise.“You know,”explained the boy, “I leaned over and went ‘Pssst!’…

  • Image of God

    Actually, our image of God is outmoded anyway, whether the tsunami occurs or not.  Religion has become divisive, quarrelsome and idiotic.  Religion is the reason we have all this conflict in the world.  We have squeezed God into the volume of a body and the span of a lifetime; given God a male identity, and…